Long-term treatment with a specific Rho-kinase inhibitor suppresses cardiac allograft vasculopathy in mice.

abstract：:Vascular disease in diabetics could arise in part from altered vessel wall catebolism. Specific activities of hydrolases in aortic smooth muscle cells from rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes were measured. Enyzmes included: neutral alpha-glucosidase, alpha-mannosidase, and lysosomal N-acetyl beta-glucosaminidas...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Wolinsky H,Goldfischer S,Capron L,Capron F,Coltoff-Schiller B,Kasak L

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the absence of a systematic development plan, β-blockers have reached the top tier of medical therapies for chronic heart failure. The successful outcome was due to the many dedicated investigators who produced, over a 30-year period, increasing evidence that β-blocking agents should or actually did improve th...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Bristow MR

更新日期：2011-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine modulates a variety of cellular functions by interacting with specific cell surface G protein-coupled receptors (A1, A2A, A2B, and A3) and is a potential mediator of angiogenesis through the A2B receptor. The lack of a potent, selective A2B receptor inhibitor has hampered its characterization. Our goal was t...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Afzal A,Shaw LC,Caballero S,Spoerri PE,Lewin AS,Zeng D,Belardinelli L,Grant MB

更新日期：2003-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Arteries from deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt and N(omega)-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA) hypertensive but not normotensive rats develop spontaneous tone. LY294002 and wortmannin, phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) inhibitors, eliminate spontaneous tone. We hypothesized that PI3-kinase protein and/or activity wa...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Northcott CA,Poy MN,Najjar SM,Watts SW

更新日期：2002-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) indomethacin, and reserpine were evaluated in the rabbit renal vascular bed in situ under conditions of controlled blood flow. Intrarenal infusion of PGE2, 0.03 and 0.3 microgram/min, decreased responses to renal nerve stimulation, intra-arterial norepinephrine, and angiotensin. ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Fink GD,Chapnick BM,Goldberg MR,Paustian PW,Kadowitz PJ

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Carriers of the most common prothrombotic mutations FVL (factor V Leiden) and FII (prothrombin) 20210G>A show a highly variable clinical phenotype. Using standardized in vivo coagulation activation followed by activity pattern analysis we have recently shown, that the FVL mutation accelerates thrombin and APC...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Rühl H,Berens C,Winterhagen FI,Reda S,Müller J,Oldenburg J,Pötzsch B

更新日期：2019-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium channel blockers (CCBs), which are used clinically for treatment of angina and hypertension, are known to inhibit calcium influx into arterial smooth muscle cells and thereby decrease smooth muscle cell contraction. In addition, they prevent cholesteryl ester (CE) accumulation, the hallmark of human atheroscle...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Etingin OR,Hajjar DP

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the late coronary vascular response to carotid chemoreceptor reflex activation in normal, conscious dogs instrumented for the measurement of right main and left circumflex coronary artery blood flows, arterial and right ventricular pressures, and arterial and coronary sinus blood gases and O2 contents. Wit...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Murray PA,Lavallee M,Vatner SF

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are an important source of reactive oxygen species (ROS), implicated in ischemia/reperfusion injury. When isolated from ischemic myocardium, mitochondria demonstrate increased ROS production as a result of damage to electron transport complexes. To investigate the mechanisms, we studied effects of hypoxia...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Korge P,Ping P,Weiss JN

更新日期：2008-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although atrial fibrillation is the most common serious cardiac arrhythmia, the fundamental molecular pathways remain undefined. Mutations in KCNQ1, one component of a sympathetically activated cardiac potassium channel complex, cause familial atrial fibrillation, although the mechanisms in vivo are unknown. We show h...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Temple J,Frias P,Rottman J,Yang T,Wu Y,Verheijck EE,Zhang W,Siprachanh C,Kanki H,Atkinson JB,King P,Anderson ME,Kupershmidt S,Roden DM

更新日期：2005-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured pressure-volume curves in nine excised dog ventricles and stress-strain curves in two to five muscle specimens from each ventricle to verify a derived formula that relates muscle stiffness to the ventricular pressure-volume curve. The assumptions underlying this formula are: (1) the ventricle is a uniform ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Glantz SA,Kernoff RS

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) stimulates the formation of a collateral circulation on arterial occlusion. The present study served to determine whether these proarteriogenic properties of MCP-1 are preserved in hyperlipidemic apolipoprotein E-deficient (apoE-/-) mice and whether it affects the systemic de...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： van Royen N,Hoefer I,Böttinger M,Hua J,Grundmann S,Voskuil M,Bode C,Schaper W,Buschmann I,Piek JJ

更新日期：2003-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial and dynamic properties of ventricular fibrillation (VF) may be random or related to cellular electrical properties of the normal heart. Local activation intervals (AIs) in VF may depend on the local refractory period (RP), and sustained VF may require a steep action potential (AP) restitution curve. In gui...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Choi BR,Liu T,Salama G

更新日期：2001-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:By using excised postmortem hearts obtained from 15 mongrel dogs with the pericardium intact, we investigated mechanical interactions between the four heart chambers from the standpoint of ventricular pressure-volume relationships. The interactions investigated were those between (1) the atrium and the ventricle, (2) ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Maruyama Y,Ashikawa K,Isoyama S,Kanatsuka H,Ino-Oka E,Takishima T

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heptanol blocks sodium current (INa) in nerve, but its effects on cardiac INa have not been well characterized. Block of INa by heptanol was studied in 16 internally perfused voltage-clamped cardiac Purkinje cells at reduced Na+ (45 mM outside, 0 mM inside). Heptanol block of peak sodium conductance was well described...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Nelson WL,Makielski JC

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cAMP-dependent protein kinase is anchored to discrete cellular compartments by a family of proteins, the A-kinase anchor proteins (AKAPs). We have investigated in vivo and in vitro the biological effects of the expression of a prototypic member of the family, AKAP75, on smooth muscle cells. In vitro expression of AKAP...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Indolfi C,Stabile E,Coppola C,Gallo A,Perrino C,Allevato G,Cavuto L,Torella D,Di Lorenzo E,Troncone G,Feliciello A,Avvedimento E,Chiariello M

更新日期：2001-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we investigated the modulatory role of the epicardium in myocardial and coronary development. Epicardial cell tracing experiments have shown that epicardium-derived cells are the source of interstitial myocardial fibroblasts, cushion mesenchyme, and smooth muscle cells. Epicardial outgrowth inhib...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Gittenberger-de Groot AC,Vrancken Peeters MP,Bergwerff M,Mentink MM,Poelmann RE

更新日期：2000-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete knowledge of myocardial structure, metabolism, and function is crucial to understanding the response of the heart to injury such as ischemia. Increasingly, this type of knowledge is required at multiple levels, from that of the isolated myocyte to the functioning organism, to provide basic scientists and clin...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Wu KC,Lima JA

更新日期：2003-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the effects of the newer inotropic drugs, pimobendan (UD-CG 115 BS) and milrinone (Win 47203), on the electrical, mechanical and biochemical activity of intact and detergent-skinned preparations of cardiac muscle. Both of these agents increased contractile force of guinea pig papillary muscle preparations ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Fujino K,Sperelakis N,Solaro RJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Despite significant interest in bone marrow mononuclear cell (BMC) therapy for ischemic heart disease, current techniques have resulted in only modest benefits. However, selected patients have shown improvements after autologous BMC therapy, but the contributing factors are unclear. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Schutt RC,Trachtenberg BH,Cooke JP,Traverse JH,Henry TD,Pepine CJ,Willerson JT,Perin EC,Ellis SG,Zhao DX,Bhatnagar A,Johnstone BH,Lai D,Resende M,Ebert RF,Wu JC,Sayre SL,Orozco A,Zierold C,Simari RD,Moyé L,Cogle

更新日期：2015-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:An increase in plasma renin activity was demonstrated in plasma from normal subjects and most patients with essential hypertension after prolonged storage of the plasma at -20 degrees C. No change in renin substrate concentration was observed after storage for 12 months, and the rate of angiotensin generation during i...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sealey JE,Laragh JH

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two NO synthase (NOS) isoforms have been described in vessels, an endothelial constitutive NOS (eNOS) and an inducible NOS (iNOS). The purpose of the present study was to examine the endothelium-dependent and endothelium-independent hypotensive response in aging rats, analyzing the ability of their vessels to produce ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Cernadas MR,Sánchez de Miguel L,García-Durán M,González-Fernández F,Millás I,Montón M,Rodrigo J,Rico L,Fernández P,de Frutos T,Rodríguez-Feo JA,Guerra J,Caramelo C,Casado S,López-Farré

更新日期：1998-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac alpha-adrenergic receptors mediate cellular responses to norepinephrine through an undefined series of molecular events. We examined the possibility that phosphoinositide hydrolysis was stimulated through alpha-adrenergic receptors in cardiomyocytes purified from adult rat ventricle. Phosphoinositide stores we...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Brown JH,Buxton IL,Brunton LL

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After myocardial infarction (MI), the noninfarcted myocardium undergoes significant hypertrophy as part of the post-MI structural remodeling. Electrophysiological changes associated with the hypertrophied remodeled myocardium may play a key role in arrhythmia generation in the post-MI heart. We investigated the cellul...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Qin D,Zhang ZH,Caref EB,Boutjdir M,Jain P,el-Sherif N

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) was either added to suffusate solutions (30 nM) or infused into the jugular vein (0.1 nanomol/min/100 g) of anesthetized rats. Steady-state blood flow was calculated from arteriolar diameter and red blood cell velocity measurements using video microscopy in the intestinal or s...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Proctor KG,Bealer SL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells release nitric oxide (NO) more potently in response to increased shear stress than to agonists which elevate intracellular free calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i). To determine mechanistic differences in the regulation of endothelial constitutive NO synthase (ecNOS), we measured NO production by bovine ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Corson MA,James NL,Latta SE,Nerem RM,Berk BC,Harrison DG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Upregulation of endothelial vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM)-1 and the subsequent increase in monocyte recruitment constitute critical events in atherogenesis. We have recently shown that in human coronary artery endothelial cells (HCAECs) regulated expression of VCAM-1 depends, to a significant extent,...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Smedlund K,Tano JY,Vazquez G

更新日期：2010-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In myocardial infarction (MI), granulation tissue cells disappear via apoptosis to complete a final scarring with scanty cells. Blockade of this apoptosis was reported to improve post-MI ventricular remodeling and heart failure. However, the molecular biological mechanisms for the apoptosis are unknown. Fas and Fas li...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Li Y,Takemura G,Kosai K,Takahashi T,Okada H,Miyata S,Yuge K,Nagano S,Esaki M,Khai NC,Goto K,Mikami A,Maruyama R,Minatoguchi S,Fujiwara T,Fujiwara H

更新日期：2004-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The dystrophin-glycoprotein complex is a large complex of membrane-associated proteins linking the cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix in muscle. Transmembrane heterodimeric (alphabeta) integrins serve also as cellular adhesion molecules and mechanotransducers. In the animal model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy,...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Elsherif L,Huang MS,Shai SY,Yang Y,Li RY,Chun J,Mekany MA,Chu AL,Kaufman SJ,Ross RS

更新日期：2008-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence indicates that the control of cell proliferation and apoptosis are linked. The c-myc proto-oncogene is induced early after cell-cycle entry in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in vitro and after arterial injury and regulates both cell proliferation and apoptosis. Although both proliferation and...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Macdonald K,Bennett MR

更新日期：1999-04-16 00:00:00